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Judge McMahon issues revised scheduling order in Advanced Local Media v. Cohere. Summary judgment motions due Dec. 18, 2026
Read more: Judge McMahon issues revised scheduling order in Advanced Local Media v. Cohere. Summary judgment motions due Dec. 18, 2026In Advanced Local Media v. Cohere, Judge Colleen McMahon issued a revised scheduling order. The summary judgment motions are due on Dec. 18, 2026. That’s the same deadline for the parties to submit a joint pretrial order. This case appear to be moving forward full steam ahead.
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Magistrate Judge Ona Wang is reassigned discovery issues from Magistrate Judge Netburn in Advance Local Media v. Cohere
Read more: Magistrate Judge Ona Wang is reassigned discovery issues from Magistrate Judge Netburn in Advance Local Media v. CohereMagistrate Judge Ona Wang, who is assigned to the OpenAI MDL Litigation, has now also been assigned to Advance Local Media v. Cohere. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn had been originally assigned the latter case.
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Cohere files answer to Advance Local Media’s Complaint
Read more: Cohere files answer to Advance Local Media’s ComplaintAfter Judge McMahon denied its partial motion to dismiss, Cohere filed its answer to the complaint filed by news organizations Advance Local Media. Here are the affirmative defenses raised: Notably, and not suprisingly, Cohere does not raise any defense based on (1) advice of legal counsel or (2) innocent infringement. In Bartz v. Anthropic, a…
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Reflections on Judge McMahon’s denial of partial motion to dismiss Advance Local Media’s Complaint v. Cohere
Read more: Reflections on Judge McMahon’s denial of partial motion to dismiss Advance Local Media’s Complaint v. CohereOn Nov. 13, 2025, Judge McMahon issued her ruling denying Cohere’s partial motion to dismiss Advance Local Media’s Complaint. Summarized here: Today, I will take a closer look at the copyright part of the court’s ruling. A. Cohere attempted to dismiss the “substitutive summaries” theory of infringement Judge McMahon rejected Cohere’s argument on “substitutive summaries“:…
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Cohere loses its partial motion to dismiss Advance Local Media’s direct copyright infringement claim
Read more: Cohere loses its partial motion to dismiss Advance Local Media’s direct copyright infringement claimJudge McMahon, in the Southern District of New York, denied AI company Cohere’s partial motion to dismiss direct and secondary copyright infringement claims and Lanham Act claims. This is an important case challenging, among other things, outputs from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). The opinion also discusses the relevance (or not) of plaintiffs’ investigatory tactics to…
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Proposed protective order in Advanced Local Media v. Cohere
Read more: Proposed protective order in Advanced Local Media v. CohereFinally have some docket activity in Advanced Local Media v. Cohere, the case filed by Conde Nast. The parties submitted their proposed protective order for discovery to Judge Colleen McMahon
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Judge McMahon issues scheduling order in Advance Local Media v. Cohere
Read more: Judge McMahon issues scheduling order in Advance Local Media v. CohereJudge McMahon issued the scheduling order for the Advanced Local Media v. Cohere case. Fact discovery to close on Feb. 27, 2026. All discovery including expert discovery to close on July 24, 2026. Related Stories